Quotes I believe in....
Apr 1, 2024 06:44:38 #
DavidA
Loc: Hopewell NJ
billnikon wrote:
They'll have to pry my flash drives from my cold dead hands.
In 10-20 years, current flash drives won’t be able to be read. Consider cassette tapes or Zip drives.
Apr 1, 2024 07:20:14 #
DavidA wrote:
In 10-20 years, current flash drives won’t be able to be read. Consider cassette tapes or Zip drives.
Interesting.....
I wonder what will replace them.
Wireless to mass memory in phones?
RFID type cards?
USB fobs seem so efficient for their size, capacity, and portability.
Apr 1, 2024 07:24:30 #
DavidA wrote:
In 10-20 years, current flash drives won’t be able to be read. Consider cassette tapes or Zip drives.
copy the files to newer medium whatever it is as the time goes by. But what I am sure of is that nobody woud want to see my pictures.
Apr 1, 2024 07:29:16 #
BebuLamar wrote:
copy the files to newer medium whatever it is as the time goes by. But what I am sure of is that nobody woud want to see my pictures.
Yup.
Just like what was done with floppies.
Apr 1, 2024 07:37:27 #
Longshadow wrote:
Yup.
Just like what was done with floppies.
Just like what was done with floppies.
the things with prints and slides that you can't copy them without generation loss.
Apr 1, 2024 08:00:25 #
BebuLamar wrote:
the things with prints and slides that you can't copy them without generation loss.
Well, while technically true.
But I would MUCH rather have a digital copy than none....
Apr 1, 2024 08:10:50 #
Having read all the replies there seems to be only a few a few ponts of view ( and they are loosely connected) to the question. However, consider this: With all the trash and garbage that scientists claim will take forever to break down and the massive amount of McDonald's consumption neither point of view is relevant . Aliens landing here could very will determine that Ronald McDonald was some kind of deity.
Apr 1, 2024 09:26:34 #
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Apr 1, 2024 12:42:25 #
BebuLamar wrote:
copy the files to newer medium whatever it is as the time goes by.
That's what I've done. At first my photo archive was backed-up on CD-ROMS. Then I replaced them with DVD-ROMS. Now I've got copies on two hard drives, on that travels with me and one that's locked in my gun safe when I'm on the road. I also have another copy on a small hard drive that kept in a fireproof document safe that gets update every couple of months. And just in case, our son in Texas is holding on to a copy on some high density memory sticks which get updated every six months or so.
Apr 1, 2024 14:02:28 #
Never saw the movie (will make an effort). A few years ago I completed converting my (deceased) father's slides to digital, a task that took about a year working on it when I could and ended up with approx 10K photos and have distributed them to my brothers--and now I'm starting to do the same with with about 35 yrs of mine. This is how they'll get passed down to my son and anyone else interested. Many of my father's chromes (if not on Kodachrome) showed deterioration and required some help--but many were really beyond rescue. The reality is, in my opinion, that this how all our families's image histories will be kept and shared with future generations....
Apr 1, 2024 16:39:15 #
PhotoMono123 wrote:
All you have to do is be an empty nester moving from your big house to something smaller — a different house, an apartment, or senior living — and all the slides will go away and the prints will be culled to a favorite few.
I must amicably disagree. I have taken movie films, or film and digital photos since the late 1960s. I also inherited the many thousands of feet of movie films my father took as far back as the late 1940s. In my lifetime I have had around a dozen, or more, mailing addresses. I still have the majority of the movies, slides, and photographs (film and digital) referenced above. Those images are of great sentimental value to me and even if I transferred it all to digital I think I'd still keep the originals.
Edit: When I typed my response above, I had not looked to see this appeared on page four. I was thinking maybe page two. Sure has brought out many comments and thoughts.
Apr 2, 2024 08:30:15 #
BebuLamar wrote:
But the digital data is something you can preserve forever not the slides nor the prints.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
BebuLarmar, I am sure there are photographs galore that are 150 years old and I totally agree that the only way to preserve digital prints is to convert them into something physical. I think that aCD or DVD would be more logical. Then archive them someplace safe. Of course, you might need to archive the computer and monitor that will play them, or possibly just a tv set, as there will probably be nothing in the future capable of displaying the files on the discs. Do not think that flash drives or hard drives will fill the bill. They will just be more “digital dust”.
Apr 2, 2024 08:38:24 #
Otterbug wrote:
BebuLarmar, I am sure there are photographs galore... (show quote)
Simply keep migrating them to the "latest" storage media.......
Apr 2, 2024 08:49:45 #
Longshadow wrote:
Simply keep migrating them to the "latest" storage media.......
Yes and have documents of the file format.
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